Energy and environment
In the face of major climate change and depletion of resources, development of sustainable, affordable and non-polluting engineering and energy solutions are vital to the future of global economic growth and our society as a whole.
Key research expertise
Hydrogen
- Generation
- Storage
- Processing
- Utilisation
- Hydrogen in Materials
Nuclear
- Monitoring
- New materials development for harsh environments
- Systems reliability
- Structural engineering
- Structural integrity
- UAVs/robotics
Power electronics
- GaN and SiC power electronics and reliability
- Ultra-high efficiency power electronics
- Grid-level power electronics, sensor-driven electronics
- Renewable power generation
Green and sustainable energy
- Pico and micro-hydropower generation
- Microgrids
- Energy Storage
- Whole energy systems
- Energy efficient computing
- Energy harvesting
Water Engineering
- Catchment hydrology
- Groundwater
- Uncertainty and risk
- Sensitivity analysis
- Water resource management
- Soil moisture and hydrometrology
- Floods and droughts
- Hydroinformatics
- Hydro-epidemiology
- Water quality
- Climate change impacts
- Water, sanitation and health
- Climate and sanitation
- Weather radar
- Predictions in ungauged basins
- Land atmosphere modelling
Earthquake Engineering
- Computational modelling
- Materials science
- Laboratory testing
- Field monitoring
Research groups
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Bristol Composites Institute
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Dynamics and Control
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Earthquake and Geotechnical
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Electrical Energy Management Group
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Engineering Mathematics
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Engineering Systems, Design and Innovation
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Fluid and Aerodynamics
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Solid Mechanics
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Trustworthy Systems
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Ultrasonics and Non-destructive Testing (UNDT)
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Water and Environmental Engineering
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Engineering for International Development
The faculty is involved in many research projects with sustainable development goals. They focus on natural disasters, resource security, sustainable energy and health in developing countries.